Sorry, but i see that the spelling of the proper name got garbled by the computer. Let me try again. The spelling I use is Tret'jakov. Pound's is Tretyakow, which he must have found in FRONT. Wayne Lars Kleberg wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Sergei Tertyakov was a Russian leftwing futurist and propagator of > "literature of fact" (in the late 1920's and early 1930's). In a German > edition of Sergej Tretjakow, Gesichter der Avantgarde (Aufbau-Verlag > Berlin und Weimar 1991, p. 462) I found an interesting note: > > "1931 - Polemiken gegen Tretjakows Literaturbegriff und Schriftstellerbild > [...]. Ezra Pound, 'Open letter to Tertyakov'. In: Front, 2/1931, s. > 124-126". > > Obviously, this is a reply to Tretyakov's earlier contribution to Front, > cf. Baechler, Litz & Longenbach, Pound's Contributions to periodicals > (1991), vol. 5: > > Open Letter to Tretyakow, kolchoznik, Front, I. 2 (Feb. 1931) > 124-6. Concerning "Report of S. Tretyakow, Kolchoznik" in the issue for > Dec. 1930.) > > Does anyone happen to know where I can find Pound's 'Open letter'? If the > reference is correct, where can one find Front (obviously a journal)? > > I will be grateful for any hints for my further digging in the > Russian-Western modernist connections! > > Sincerely, > > Lars Kleberg